Glen's Details

Glen mcleod principal (B.Juris, LLB)

IN THE OFFICE Glen is recognised as one of Western Australia’s preeminent environmental and planning lawyers. Glen established Glen McLeod Legal in 2012 specialising in environmental and planning law following extensive local and international experience, particularly in the setting up of major and complex infrastructure projects and the enhancement or protection of significant long-term industrial operations and real estate assets.

Glen’s skills include project management, litigation and the strategic management of approval processes, and he has additional expertise in the climate change and renewable energy sectors, ports, international trade, probity and procurement.

Glen is also known for his work in compulsory acquisitions and valuation law. He is keenly interested in the relationship between property rights and environmental law.

2016 Glen was WA Law Society’s Lawyer of the Year.

2017 Who’s Who Legal – named amongst the world’s leading environmental and climate change lawyers;

2018 Doyle’s guide to the legal profession – recommended as preeminent planning and environment lawyer in Western Australia

OUTSIDE THE OFFICE Glen is known for his interest in passing on and extending his knowledge through lecturing and research. As an Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University, Glen conducts undergraduate courses in Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Law and in Town Planning Law. He has also lectured in Australia and internationally to professional, industry, academic and commercial audiences.

Among his many prominent professional affiliations, Glen is the immediate past Chair of the International Bar Association’s Environmental Health and Safety Committee. The IBA is the global voice of the legal profession.

He is a member of the Law Society of Western Australia’s Environment, Town Planning and Local Government Committee.

He is the general editor of Planning Law in Australia, this country’s leading planning law encyclopaedia and co-editor of the Australia-wide Local Government Law Journal.

He is a Board Member of the Environmental Protection Authority and the Waste Authority of WA.

removing an onerous financial penalty and reducing the replanting requirements of a Remediation Determination issued under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth);

preventing the liable party in a Contaminated Sites Act 2003 (WA) matter from entering and drilling bore holes on private property without a land access agreement in place;

obtaining fair and just compensation payments as a result of the compulsory taking of private property interests by public agencies such as Main Roads, Landcorp, the Water Corporation and local government authorities;

obtaining fair and just compensation payments as a result of the compulsory taking of private property interests by public agencies such as Main Roads, Landcorp, the Water Corporation and local government authorities.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Jurisprudence, University of Western Australia, 1975

Bachelor of Laws, University of Western Australia, 1976

ADMISSIONS

Western Australia, 1977

England & Wales, 1988

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Immediate Past Chair of the Environmental Health and Safety Committee of the International Bar Association

Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University Law School

Past National President, National Environmental Law Association

Past Chairman, Legal Issues Working Group of the International Solid Waste Association

Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Commerce and Manufacturers

Member of the Law Society of Western Australia, and member of Society’s Government, Town Planning and Local Government Committee

Member of the Law Society of England and Wales

Past Council Member, United Kingdom Environmental Law Association

Past Council Member, Institute for Waste Management (UK)

Member, Australian Institute of Administrative Law

Independent awards and recognition

2017 Who’s Who Legal – named amongst the world’s leading environmental and climate change lawyers;

2017 Doyle’s guide to the legal profession – recommended as preeminent planning and environment lawyer in Western Australia;

2016 WA Law Society Lawyer of the Year;

2012 Doyle’s guide to the legal profession – recommended as a leading environment and planning lawyer in Western Australia;